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MS 30 - James Beattie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic, poet, essayist and moral philosopher: papers
1 - James Beattie's copy letters
Collection
GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level
Item
Ref No
MS 30/1/230
Title
To Lady Newhaven, from Peterhead
Date
23 August 1783
Extent
1 Item
Administrative History
Lady (Frances) Mayne, later Lady Newhaven [d. 1801]. Wife of Sir William Mayne. Formerly Frances Allen, the heiress of a considerable estate in Ireland. She kept up a correspondence with Beattie and his wife for some years
Description
About the possibility of lodging William Elliott, a seventeen year old whom Lady Newhaven asked Beattie to board and mentor when he came to Aberdeen as a student (Marischal College 1783-1787).
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Open
Publication Note
Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson
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